Laurie is a San Francisco Bay Area-based brand photographer crafting images that illuminate expert craftsmanship. Her background spans design thinking, brand/product strategy, and photographic techniques, all weaving together in synergy to create inspirational images that resonate with her clients’ communities.Her passion is to collaborate with expert artisans - people creating distinctive experiences and products that make lasting impact in their customers’ lives - and meaningfully document the stories of these individuals with creativity, meticulous detail and thoughtful grace. She also offers brand, social and product strategy expertise to her clients by way of her 20-year tech background, which includes 4 years at Facebook and Instagram, and personally re-branding of Tencent’s chat app, Weixin (est. 1.1B users), into WeChat in 2012.